After the People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos, the Filipinos vowed that neither the Marcoses nor the tyranny of martial law would ever return to Malacañang Palace. About forty decades …
Tyranny? You mean, Unity?: The Fateful Alliance of the Marcos-Duterte Clans in the Philippines
“Bagong Pilipinas, Bagong Mukha!”, (trans: New Philippines, New Face) the battle cry of the 2022 Marcos-Duterte campaign jingle echoed throughout the nation as the resurging Marcoses and the …
All the Web’s a Stage: New Media, Micro-Celebrities, and Fake News in the Philippines
“Celebrity” in Philippine politics can manifest in more ways than one. Most notoriously, celebrity makes itself evident when film and television stars participate in politics as candidates during …
21 Century Spectacle: How Disinformation, Populism, and Social Media Are A 21 Century Fulfillment of the Concept of Spectacle
How much of the events that we encounter in our political sphere actually happen in the way we think they do? How much of what we know has to do with the narrative formed around it after it happens, …
